Coaching practices for If Someone Asked Me Right Now Why I Do This the Real Reason the Change I'm Actually Trying to Make I'd Fumble it and I Think That's Exactly Why I Can't Make Anyone Else Feel it I've Never Put My Own Purpose Into Plain Words
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- If someone asked me right now why I do this
- I sort of know what drives me but it’s this big foggy feeling I can never pin down
- I keep setting goals I think I’m supposed to want, and the moment they get hard I just quit
- I’ve got this inspiring purpose written down and it does absolutely nothing for my actual days
- I do the work and I genuinely can’t see who it’s for or whether it matters to anyone
Practices that may help
- Articulate your personal "Why" as a leader
A leader who cannot state their own purpose clearly cannot communicate it to anyone else.
Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose - Write your Why statement
Capture your purpose in one line: "To ___ so that ___."
Find Your Why, Made Practical - Capture compelling reasons why
Write the emotional and practical reasons this result matters — the "why" that will sustain action under resistance.
Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical - Define your HOWs
Translate the abstract why into a few concrete principles for how you operate.
Find Your Why, Made Practical - Connect the work to a purpose beyond yourself
Tie effort to something larger — the "why" that outlasts the reward.
Drive: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose - Contribution mapping
Trace the visible chain from your daily work to a person or outcome that benefits.
Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day - Start with why (the Golden Circle)
Lead with the purpose behind what you do, not the features of what you do.
Find Your Why, Made Practical - Clarify reflective motivation through values and goals
Articulate why the behavior matters to you — in your own words, tied to your own values.
The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel - Use the correct I-statement structure
"I feel [emotion] when [specific observable situation] because [why it matters to me]."
I-Statements: How to Express Yourself Without Triggering Defensiveness - Purpose accountability pairing
Find one person to share your purpose with and check in monthly on whether your choices are aligned with it.
Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day
Related concerns
- How To Find Your Why
Simon Sinek’s method says people are moved by why you do something before what or how — so the work is to articulate the purpose, cause, or belief that drives you, captured in a single Why statement. The Golden Circle and the Why-statement format are practitioner frameworks: useful and intuitive, but largely anecdotal in their specifics, even though purpose itself does correlate with motivation in research.
- How To Write Your Why
Simon Sinek’s method says people are moved by why you do something before what or how — so the work is to articulate the purpose, cause, or belief that drives you, captured in a single Why statement. The Golden Circle and the Why-statement format are practitioner frameworks: useful and intuitive, but largely anecdotal in their specifics, even though purpose itself does correlate with motivation in research.
- Iterate On Your Purpose
Capture your purpose in one line: "To ___ so that ___."
Write your Why statement
- Living Your Purpose Leader
A leader who cannot state their own purpose clearly cannot communicate it to anyone else.
Articulate your personal "Why" as a leader
- Personal Purpose Statement
Capture your purpose in one line: "To ___ so that ___."
- Walk Your Why
Simon Sinek’s method says people are moved by why you do something before what or how — so the work is to articulate the purpose, cause, or belief that drives you, captured in a single Why statement. The Golden Circle and the Why-statement format are practitioner frameworks: useful and intuitive, but largely anecdotal in their specifics, even though purpose itself does correlate with motivation in research.
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